Example sentences of "[noun sg] as they have [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thorough overhaul of the educational process will ensure that standards remain as high in the future as they have been in the past . |
| 2 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 3 | But in addition , when they reached Lyons , the king 's messenger told Anselm that the king would not allow him to return to England unless he promised to observe the customs of the kingdom as they had been in the time of Rufus . |
| 4 | Bales had been arranged for the jury as they had been on the night of the fire . |
| 5 | Modules were built in the early 1980s in much the same way as they had been in the late 1960s , with little technical or organizational change . |
| 6 | Another facet : a ribbed hall of towering , icon-stencilled machine tools , littered with corpses , many of them as grotesque in death as they had been in life … |
| 7 | Bright colours were no longer confined to the ‘ fun ’ shoe as they had been in the Seventies . |